Many of you have read my story in Get Fresh Magazine about my first Bikram yoga class. Most of you, we can hope, won’t experience anything quite so dramatic. Here are some things you can do to ensure your very first class is a success. Read the rest of this entry »

By Kelli Haines

Being 40 pounds overweight used to feel almost normal to me because I didn’t remember what it felt like not to be. I got used to being inactive, used to eating for emotional reasons, and used to going on crash diets to keep my ever increasing mass at bay. But the emotional discomfort outweighed (pun intended) the physical, at least for me. I was always self conscious and forever trying to find ways to hide my bulk. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re asked to touch your right nostril or scratch your left knee, your hand will have no problems locating these areas. Why? For the same reason you can make a trip from New York to Los Angeles, or any other place in the US. Because you have a road map of the whole country—likely a pretty good one, right in your head. This is a simplified yet apt example of the kind of mind-body interactions that have been discovered by modern science. Read the rest of this entry »